Past Newsletter Essays​ Yoga, Truthiness and the New York TimesThis article systematically takes apart New York Times writer William Broad's claims that yoga is responsible for hundreds of strokes per year, the emotional linchpin of his yoga-wrecks-your-body arguments.

Man Bites Downward Facing DogI wrote this in response to William Broad's New York Times article, "Wounded Warrior Pose," and its inaccurate claims about the "remarkable" dangers of yoga.

​Can Yoga Help with Weight Loss?This is an article I wrote for my email newsletter, responding to the assertion in William Broad's book The Science of Yoga that yoga could make you fat! As you've probably already guessed, I don't agree …

Landmark Study: Yoga Lowers Health Care Costs Scientific evidence has been mounting suggesting that yoga can help people with a wide variety of health conditions improve their health. Even so, most insurance companies have been reluctant to reimburse for yoga or yoga therapy, because they wanted to see proof that doing so would actually save them money....